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It’s not on paper that you create but in your innards, in the gut and out of living tissue - organic writing I call it. A poem works for me not when it says what I want it to say and not when it evokes what I want it to. It works when the subject I started out with metamorphoses alchemically into a different one, one that has been discovered, or uncovered, by the poem. It works when it surprises me, when it says something I have repressed or pretended not to know. The meaning and worth of my writing is measured by how much I put myself on the line and how much nakedness I achieve.
— Gloria Anzaldúa, ”Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers” (via uber-alles)
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) was photographed on April 10, when the comet was slightly closer than Jupiter’s orbit at a distance of 386 million miles from the Sun (394 million miles from Earth).
Even at that great distance the comet is already active as sunlight warms the surface and causes frozen volatiles to sublimate. A detailed analysis of the dust coma surrounding the solid, icy nucleus reveals a strong jet blasting dust particles off the sunward-facing side of the comet’s nucleus.
Preliminary measurements from the Hubble images suggest that the nucleus of ISON is no larger than three or four miles across. This is remarkably small considering the high level of activity observed in the comet so far, said researchers. Astronomers are using these images to measure the activity level of this comet and constrain the size of the nucleus, in order to predict the comet’s activity when it skims 700,000 miles above the Sun’s roiling surface on November 28.
The comet’s dusty coma, or head of the comet, is approximately 3,100 miles across, or 1.2 times the width of Australia. A dust tail extends more than 57,000 miles, far beyond Hubble’s field of view.
More careful analysis is currently underway to improve these measurements and to predict the possible outcome of the sungrazing perihelion passage of this comet.
This image was taken in visible light with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. The blue false color was added to bring out details in the comet’s structure.
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Personal Bearings: You Better Bet Your Lucky Stars This Isn’t a Real Star Chart
William Nussbaum
Reduction Woodblock
Winter 2012
Edition of 3
390 mm x 315 mm
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Avigdor Arikha
(1929-2010)
Hand
etching, 1976
17.5 x 13 cmhttp://www.marlboroughfineart.com/prints-Avigdor-Arikha-53.html
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(Source: rajkumaris)
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evannesbit: New Work by Evan Nesbit which came all the way from Japan to be in the exhibition opening this Friday at Storefront Bushwick which I curated! Come by and check it out!
(Source: evannesbit)
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Tails of the Comet
Housed in a darkened room at Centre Clark in Montreal, Claudie Gagnon’s installation, Les queues de cométe (2013), dazzles and enchants with its mysterious sculptural formations and echoing sounds. Test tubes, elastic bands, sprouting potatoes, fishing line and steel wool: consumer detritus is the stuff of Gagnon’s installation. The work comprises seven large chandeliers, each built of a different material. Swaying slowly, the chandeliers are a fusion of the natural and synthetic, cavernous stalactites of the uncanny and the everyday. One of four walls within the room is littered with tiny holes; the light from outside creates a constellation of stars. In addition to the ominous sculptures, the soft sound of chimes can be heard and the gentle fluttering wings of taxidermy butterflies, speckled throughout the installation, create the illusion of life.
Gagnon’s re-imagining of everyday objects skillfully creates an oscillation between that which is familiar and the grotesque, submersing the viewer in an alternative, fictive world. In this world a sort of pseudoscience is the rule: biology, taxonomy, and astronomy hold no currency within the work, as it undermines the rigid systems of scientific classification. Is this perhaps a hint that all such systems are transient and bound by their inherent limits? The borders of science-based knowledge are always policed, however within this work a brief moment of unraveling is experienced- a small reminder that all discursive systems are ultimately limited.
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Waves by Daniel Palacios
A long piece of rope generates 3D waves floating in space by the physical action of its movement, and simultaneously creates sound by cutting through the air.
